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L.A. Paper's Porn Industry Coverage Will Harm Families, AFA Spokesman Warns
Agape Press ^ | 11/14/05 | Mary Rettig

Posted on 11/14/2005 3:26:12 PM PST by truthandlife

The director of research for the American Family Association says the recent addition of a pornography reporter to the staff at the Los Angeles Times shows how mainstream pornography has become. Last spring, Ralph Frammolino began regularly covering the pornography industry for the newspaper. He says the porn trade is too big an economic engine to be ignored.

According to Frammolino, the addition of the multi-billion-dollar porn trade as a news topic is thanks to the LA Times' new editor-in-chief, John Carroll. Frammolino says since Carroll came on board, the Times has "vamped up" its entertainment coverage; and since so-called "adult entertainment" is big business -- and legal -- the paper is "going to cover it that way."

But according to Ed Vitagliano of the American Family Association, the decision to put a reporter on the porn beat is not a surprising move from the liberal Los Angeles paper but is simply a sign of an overly sexualized contemporary culture.

"It would be the obvious next step," he says, "especially in a state like California, which is known for being culturally as blue a state as you can find, for pornography just to be considered another part of the entertainment menu."

However, because of the Times' new spotlight on "adult entertainment," the AFA spokesman points out, parents who get the paper must now be concerned about what their children may encounter as they flip through its pages. "Kids looking through those kinds of sections of the paper for the normal, run-of-the-mill entertainment that they're used to are now going to find some highly sexualized surprises," he notes.

Vitagliano says he is not sure whether the LA Times is really trying to be topically relevant or whether the publication is just catering to an industry with a lot of money so it can garner revenue. Either way, he asserts, the daily paper's regular coverage of porn industry news is still going to normalize pornography in some people's minds, and its fallout will ultimately harm marriages and families.


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1 posted on 11/14/2005 3:26:13 PM PST by truthandlife
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To: truthandlife

LAT = TP


2 posted on 11/14/2005 3:27:02 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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Last spring, Ralph Frammolino began regularly covering the pornography industry for the newspaper

Is this his "porn" name or his real name?

3 posted on 11/14/2005 3:27:36 PM PST by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: truthandlife
I just clicked on the thread to read the article.
4 posted on 11/14/2005 3:27:44 PM PST by OSHA (Liberalism - Is it real or is it Scrappleface?)
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"Ralph"?

I'm guessing real name.


5 posted on 11/14/2005 3:28:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: truthandlife
I believe this is covered quite well in the Porn Trade papers like Adult Video News, etc.. The L.A. Times is just continuing it's war against decency, etc., and it shows with the latest circulation figures that show it down about 5 to 15% since last year.
San Francisco Chronicle run by Sharon Stone's Ex, Phil Bronstein lost 15% of it's subscribers. Keep it fellows and your lousy Left Wing Papers and Views will continue to go down the drain.
6 posted on 11/14/2005 3:30:59 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: truthandlife

there's something funny about a porn story being covered by "agape" press...


7 posted on 11/14/2005 3:31:02 PM PST by isom35
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To: truthandlife

Another advance in the cultural Marxist's agenda.


8 posted on 11/14/2005 3:31:15 PM PST by oneofmany (Don't Tread On Me)
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This is just "assisted suicide" for big city lib papers, but the people who own and run these rags can't see it. Let 'em die - it's OK with me.


9 posted on 11/14/2005 3:32:07 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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Not to worry; no one without feathers actually reads the Times.


10 posted on 11/14/2005 3:33:04 PM PST by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: frogjerk
Is this his "porn" name or his real name?

My porn name is Max Russell.

11 posted on 11/14/2005 3:33:33 PM PST by cryptical
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Dwight Sunset


12 posted on 11/14/2005 3:36:30 PM PST by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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Mine's "Rodney Strong". I also make a hell of a good Cab Sav....


13 posted on 11/14/2005 3:39:32 PM PST by Yossarian (The media is now simply running a 24/7 soap opera with Dubya cast as the arch villain.)
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To: truthandlife

later read/pingout.


14 posted on 11/14/2005 3:41:41 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: cryptical
My porn name is Max Russell

Mine is "Keepyur Dayjob"

15 posted on 11/14/2005 3:42:27 PM PST by txroadkill
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To: truthandlife

What's the problem. Nobody reads the LA Times anymore.


16 posted on 11/14/2005 3:45:36 PM PST by Doe Eyes
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Southern California is the porn capital of the country they say, so it stands to reason that the leftist Times would chose to promote the industry. It is fitting actually, since in my opinion, most of what is printed in that rag is obscene.


17 posted on 11/14/2005 3:48:13 PM PST by ladyinred ("Progressive" = code word for Communist/Nazi)
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To: cryptical

Josh Greenmeadow here. Howya doin'?


18 posted on 11/14/2005 3:50:43 PM PST by real saxophonist (The fact that you play tuba doesn't make you any less lethal. Semper Fi)
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To: cryptical; neodad

Mine is Rod Rambone


19 posted on 11/14/2005 3:53:52 PM PST by Clemenza (Save My Life I'm Going Down for the Last Time)
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To: truthandlife

Looks like the good comrads over at Pravda on the Pacific are getting desperate for advertising dollars. What next, personals, m/f, f/f, m/m, bi/m, bi/f, hiv pos seeking hiv neg.

Do you need a junior high prom date? Pick up the LA Times.


20 posted on 11/14/2005 3:57:26 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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